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The Global Gender Gap Report 2015 [1]

Author: 
Schwab, Klaus; Samans, Richard; Zahidi, Saadia; Bekhouche, Yasmina; Ugarte, Paulina Padilla; Ratcheva, Vesselina; Hausmann, Ricardo & Tyson, Laura D’Andrea
Source: 
World Economic Forum
Format: 
Report
Publication Date: 
18 Nov 2015
AVAILABILITY
Full report PDF [2]

 

The Global Gender Gap Report ranks 145 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators.

With a decade of data, this year’s edition of the Global Gender Gap Report – first published in 2006 – shows that while the world has made progress overall, stubborn inequalities remain. 

Facts and figures from the report:

  • 2,600,000,000 – The combined population of the three countries with the lowest female-male ratio at birth: China, Armenia & India
  • 2006 – The year when men’s average pay was the same as women’s today
  • 88% – The amount of the gender gap closed by Iceland, the world’s most gender equal nation
  • 118 – The number of years it will take to close the gender gap entirely
  • 50% – More female ministers worldwide than in 2006
  • 24 – The number of countries where the gender gap in education has stagnated or widened since 2006
  • 4% – the amount of the global gender gap that has been closed since the Forum began measuring it in 2006

Canada ranked 30 out of 145 countries and attained a score of 0.740/1.00 on its level of equality between men and women. 

Related link: 
Pay gap between women and men will take 118 years to close: World Economic Forum [3]
Region: 
International [4]
Tags: 
gender [5]
gender equality [6]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/15/11/global-gender-gap-report-2015 [2] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GGGR2015/cover.pdf [3] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/15/11/pay-gap-between-women-and-men-will-take-118-years-close-world-econom [4] https://childcarecanada.org/category/region/international [5] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/gender [6] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/gender-equality